Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 2 | How many uplifts should I use , and do I need special adaptors to connect them to the filter ? |
| 3 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 4 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
| 5 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 6 | Bob and I are progressing as a piano/clarsach duo , and of course some of the accompaniments to his songs tax me to the limit , or have to be vetoed altogether . |
| 7 | His team-mates Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe rushed on court and lifted him on to their shoulders to carry him to the sidelines . |
| 8 | waves push me to the side |
| 9 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 10 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 11 | He had been about to open the door into the kitchen , but now he turned and looked at her , and his next words cut her to the bone as they were apt to do when they spat the truth at her . |
| 12 | But as he made his getaway , shoppers wrestled him to the ground forcing him to drop the stolen loot — along with £200 he had stashed in a pocket — and he fled empty-handed . |
| 13 | For long moments she toyed with his anxious , quivering wand , dexterously using her warm wet tongue and soft lips to guide him to the brink of orgasm . |
| 14 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 15 | Structuralists trace it to the workings of a permanent arms economy , necessary both to capitalism and to state capitalism . |
| 16 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 17 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 18 | Two quick steps took her to the vacated table where she seized the bottle of aquavit , neatly topping up both glasses . |
| 19 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 20 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 21 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 22 | A Mr Big character showed the pre-pubescents the gigging ropes , a set of Status Quo covers taking them to the giddy heights of 600 capacity community discos . |
| 23 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 24 | From the corner of her eye she saw the security guards wrestle him to the ground . |
| 25 | He commented : ‘ The promotion was a tremendous success thanks to the wholehearted manner in which the branches promoted it to the public . ’ |
| 26 | When the screen is completed , a local builder and about half-a-dozen husbands take it to the peace well at the corner of the village green on the Saturday morning . |
| 27 | However , whilst there is no need to take account of the attributes of a particular contracting partner , if a business contracts with people of a particular class , the steps must be reasonably sufficient to bring the terms to the notice of a member of that class — in Richardson , Spence & Co v Rowntree [ 1894 ] AC 217 , terms on a steamer ticket for carriage in steerage class were not incorporated into a contract because the defendant had taken insufficient steps to bring them to the notice of steerage class passengers . |
| 28 | The court refused to allow the claim , holding that the clause ( imposing an exorbitant charge ) was particularly onerous and unusual and the library had not taken all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the agency . |
| 29 | This concept of the division of our mental attributes into two quite separate aspects brings us to the frontiers of the fourth plane of our being , the spiritual level or plane . |
| 30 | They should ask two academic referees to recommend them to the Principal without waiting for any request from her . |